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When Big Joan Sets Up
Imagine having enough left
to break a bottle over it.
Listen how pretty, listen
for glass in nothing nearby
shattering, just morning birds
that do not wake whoever
is not sleeping. Come here
Little Birdie, come here.
No matter how great the gains
so many complaints hang—
The grass full of worms,
and still all that squawking,
like a couple talking and talking
about never talking. The chatter
of hunger, that gaudy red—
Source: Poetry (July/August 2009).
Biography
Jason Labbe is the author of a chapbook, Dear Photographer (Phylum Press, 2009). His poems appear in recent or current issues of Open City, Court Green, the Hat, and other journals.
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Relationships, Men & Women
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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